PRESENTATIONS

“A. R. Ammons’s ‘Corsons Inlet’”, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, December 2005, Washington, D.C.

“New Narrative and New Formalism in Contemporary American Poetry.” Moderator, three-day critical seminar for invited national scholars. West Chester University Poetry Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June. 2001-2005.

“Redefining the Canon of New Formalism.” West Chester University, Philadelphia, PA. June 8-11, 2005.

“Defining the Canon of New Formalism.” West Chester University, Philadelphia, PA. June 9-12, 2004.

“Anne Frank in Latin America: Marjorie Agosin’s Dear Anne Frank,” ALA Jewish-American and Holocaust Literature Symposium, Florida Atlantic University, October 22-26, 2003.

“Code-Switching in Mexican-American Poetry,” The Linguistic Association of the Southwest Conference, University of Texas – Pan American, October 17-19, 2003.

“William Jay Smith’s ‘The Cherokee Lottery’” West Chester University, Philadelphia, PA. June 7-11, 2003.

“The Nebraska Literary Community and Prairie Schooner,” Prairie Schooner 75th Anniversary Conference, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, October 2001.

“Midrash and Contemporary Jewish Literature,” American Literature Association / Florida Atlantic University Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, Nov. 1-5, 2000.

"Walking the Uneven, Muddy Road: The Tragicomic Vision of Louis Simpson." Conference on Form and Narrative, West Chester University, Philadelphia, PA. June 7-11, 2000.

"What's Jewish About Telling and Remembering?: A Response to Jacob Neusner." American Literature Association, Florida Atlantic University conference. October 20-24, 1999.

"Poetry, Testimony, and the Shoah." University of Nebraska at Omaha Legacy of the Holocaust Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, April, 1999.

"Poetry, Testimony, and the Shoah." Creighton Conference on Language and Literature, Creighton University. Omaha, Nebraska, March 1999.

"Teaching the Holocaust in a Multicultural Context," at the Conference "Legacy of the Holocaust: Its Meaning in Today's World." University of Nebraska - Omaha, Omaha, NE. April, 1998.

"Memory and History in the Poetry of Rita Dove Michael S. Harper," Creighton Conference on Language and Literature, Creighton U. Omaha, Nebraska, March 1998.

"Familial and Historical Memory in Thomas and Beulah," MLA Convention, Toronto, December 1997. This paper was part of a special session, "The Intimacy of History in Rita Dove's Poetry," I proposed and chaired at the 1997 MLA convention.

“Teaching Ethnic Studies: Strategies for Teaching Afro-American Literature.” Nebraska Association for Multicultural Education Conference. University of Nebraska at Kearney, March 1997.

"Memory and Passion: Historical Conscience-ness in the Poetry of Michael S. Harper." "Celebrating Harper" conference at Bowdon College, Brunswick, Maine, October 24-27, 1996.

"Prairie Reclamation Project: The Poetry of Don Welch and Twyla Hansen." Western Literature Association Annual Meeting, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2-5, 1996.

"Intertextuality and Teaching Contemporary Prairie Poetry," Textshop Conference: The Future of Literacy, University of Nebraska at Kearney. September 27, 1996.

"American Visionary Poetry." Lecture presented at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, July 1996.

"Louis Simpson: Complicity in and Betrayal of New Poets of England and America. " National Poetry Foundation Conference. University of Maine, Orono, Maine, June 1996.

"A. R. Ammons and The Long Poem as a Geological Force." MLA Convention, Chicago, December, 1995. This paper was part of a special session I proposed and chaired entitled "Complexities of Motion: Chaos and Order in A. R. Ammons's Long Poems."

"Say Things and Gather About." Symposium on the work of A. R. Ammons. Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

"Oliver Sacks: From Clinician to Storyteller." College Composition and Communications Conference. Seattle, Washington. Spring, 1989.

"The Writing Institute: Professional Writing in a Liberal Art Context." Conference on Professional Development and the Liberal Arts, Tacoma, Spring 1988.

"Personal Voice in Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard," Iowa Council of Teachers of English, Pella, Iowa. Fall, 1986.

"Teaching College Writing," Rutgers University Conference on Lessons That Teach Reading and Writing in College. Newark, New Jersey. Spring, l980.

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